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Would love to see what these same people tweeted out when the comeback started.
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Would love to see what these same people tweeted out when the comeback started.
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Almost want to sign up just to ask where the post game tweets are. Or sign up on twitter finally and follow these people to see what they say after the game. But we are Hokies and we are better then that...
I'm not better than that. I wish I was but I'm not. I retweeted them all
I responded to them, but I wasn't an ass about it.
Actually....it doesn't appear to be that bad....
(Although, I think the guy was predicting the second half meltdown by calling it Bert's masterpiece.)
Honestly, I loved most of the tweets from this last guy.
Dude thank you! I can call this night complete now!
I looked at their profiles, and what was amazing was that these were mostly media people (I was expecting Arkansas fans). Except for Cory M and maybe the ESPN photojournalist, the rest of them were somewhat begrudging to admit the second half results ... even somewhat nasty about admitting that they didn't see that coming. Overall, I think it gives me a better appreciation for the mostly impartial reporting from the journalists we have in VA covering VT (Bitter, Teel, Norm Wood, et al).
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i can't believe i witnessed this. I'm still ecstatic.
I'M FUCKING CRYING
Oooooh Brett McMurphy. Turn in your sports creditability on your way out the door.
Just go back to the game thread and see all us fans crapping ourselves
This. It is why I don't read the game threads. Sometimes I just can't think of anything but "Oh ye of little faith". Did we see it coming at my house, no, we didn't, but we just somehow never lost hope. Wow what a game, and if you didn't already know that football is a long game with two halves, you should hopefully have learned it last night.
I'm guilty of posting knee jerk reactions on those game threads. For once, I actually avoided posting to the game thread for this game.
One thing I know for sure is to not give up watching until that game clock strikes 0:00 in the fourth quarter. There are 60 minutes in a football game and alot of football to be played in the time allotted. There are no "mercy" rules.
To be clear, the game thread for me a place to cheer, vent frustration, try to say something humorous (usually fails) and just generally share the game experience with fellow Hokies. I am pretty sure I did all those things last night.
That doesn't mean when I am venting frustration, I am losing faith or hope, it is just an emotional response to the way the game is going at the time.
I'll admit that to me the idea of sitting there while the game is going on posting on a computer/phone/whatever every emotion as it occurs is difficult to fathom, I get that it is the way some fans seem to need to do things these days. I guess that I don't do much differently myself, I just happen to confine it to the stadium or living room and those I am watching with. I also often drawing fire from my friends and wife for expressing frustration, while not having lost faith or hope, myself, so I get your point. Generational differences, I'd venture, but I generally save my criticism and computer yakking for after the game when I can process the entirety of the contest. I'll just call it an Old Fart's reticence to express my every living thought on the computer at the moment it occurs, again, likely a generational thing, I suspect. It is what keeps me from Facebook and especially, Twitter. But look, y'all have at it, I know you will, and I'll keep avoiding the nervous Nellies and naysayers on the game thread. I just guess it seems unimportant to me how people I don't know feel about something before it really matters to anyone but them.
I just don't have time to type out my thoughts during the active parts of the game, and then to keep tabs on the rest of the thread...
Yeah I generally stay away from the game thread, I can't process the thread as well as the game and the text conversations with out of towners all at the same time. And I need at least one hoof for beer, too.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat....I'm 18 years younger than you Fish (born '68), but i still don't do the twitter thing, and still don't have a smart phone anyway......when I'm watching a game, I mostly want to lock in like I'm watching a movie and see and hear every bit of it. I want all the commentary, the reactions between plays,...all of it. Now, i will sometimes step away from the TV during halftime and browse the in-game thread to sort of take the pulse of the TKP community, and maybe even make a comment or two, but it's always a brief visit, then back to the game. Generally, I like to take in the whole thing as it's happening, then if I want to, discuss it later. (once again, kind of like watching a movie)......just the way that I roll - not an indictment of anyone else.
Gotta agree. Check Twitter if injuries or something but that's about it
I think this may be the biggest adjustment for fans in the Fuente era because during the CFB era his teams never overcame such deficits.
To be fair, basically no one overcomes such deficits. FBS teams were previously 0-102 when trailing by 24 this season, and 3-902 in the previous 10 years.
Don't get too cocky Hokie fans.... Remember, Burger Bielema is on the NCAA rules committee. He might get this game overturned....
Would Fuente be allowed to walk on the field, call a referee conference and delay the game for 12 minutes?
If Fuente was respectfully discussing the proper application of a rule, then I think he would have been shown the same courtesy Bielma received.
In the moment, I was pissed about Bielma being out on the field. But he was always calm and respectful. He never went full Narduzzi. And if he actually knew that by rule the penalty yardage should have been applied from the original yard of scrimmage in that crazy scenario, then kudos to him.
I'm not totally sure about that. In all my years of watching and coaching football, I've never seen any official give that "courtesy" to a coach. It was a terribly unprofessional way of handling the situation.
It looks like, in the end, they got the call right and that is important. But he had the officials ear all night. He, not the officials, controlled the some of the tempo of that game.
I agree. It showed that the official was incompetent because he (and his crew) couldn't get the call right without a consultation from a rules committee member (who happened to be one of the head coaches in the game.)
For Bielma, Arky and $ec
I think it's best to just let Hokie fans express their passion in-game most any way they like.
Far be it from me to tell someone how they should react to that first half.
Hokie fans?
What I get for commenting from phone. Meant as a response to Txhokie upthread. There was a lot of "No True Scotsman" barking on the game thread against other fans.
The blue is me, never doubted it it! Haha
That battery life is way too high for a TKP post /s. But seriously, I was telling my buddies the same thing. We were sleep walking in the first and that punt call got everyone fired up.
Those tweets are the gold standard for "Things I tweeted that make me look stupid!"